The last national dietary survey of the Canadian population, the Nutrition Canada Survey, was conducted in 1970-72. Data from this survey have been used extensively over the years by various levels of government and non-governmental agencies for policies, programs, health risk assessments, educational and other purposes. However, due to major changes in our food supply and in the eating habits ...

A theory-driven program evaluation was conducted for a nursing leadership program, as a collaborative project between university faculty, the nurses' union, the provincial Ministry of Health, and its chief nursing officers. A collaborative logic model process was used to engage stakeholders, and mixed methods approaches were used to answer evaluation questions. Despite demonstrated, successful ...

In this issue of the Journal, Coldman et al. report results from the Pan-Canadian Study of Mammography Screening and Mortality from Breast Cancer, an analysis of observational data from seven of 12 provincial screening programs from 1990 to 2009 (1). They find that " participation in mammography screening programs in Canada was associated with substantially reduced breast cancer mortality, " wi...

The Key Laboratory of Plant Cell Engineering and Germplasm Innovation, Ministry of Education, School of Life Science, Shandong University, 27 Shandanan Road, Jinan, Shandong 250100, People’s Republic of China (Y.Z., W.D., N.Z., X.A., M.W., G.X.); and Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Phytohormones and Growth Development, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utiliza...

At the local level, Hospital Project Managers (PMs) were single points of contact for the provincial WTIS project team and were responsible for delivering on all aspects of the WTIS deployment within hospitals. Here, two PMs share their WTIS deployment experience from Beta/Phase I (completed in March 2006) and Phase II (completed in December 2006). It was through valuable insight and feedback s...

Copyright © 2017 The Korean Society of Radiology RE: Is There a Correlation between the Presence of a Spiculated Mass on Mammogram and Luminal A Subtype Breast Cancer? Rong-Pin Wang, MD*, Li Xu, MD*, Shuqin Zhou, MD, Nanzhu Wang, MD, Lei Tang, MD Department of Radiology, Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital, Guiyang 550002, China; Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guang...

The huge regional disparity in government health expenditures (GHE) is a major policy concern in China. This paper addresses whether provincial GHE converges in China from 1997 to 2009 using the economic convergence framework based on neoclassical economic growth theory. Our empirical investigation provides compelling evidence of long-term convergence in provincial GHE within China, but not in ...

1Department of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow G4 0BA, UK 2School of Ophthalmology & Optometry, The Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, China 3Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA 4Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory for Disease Gene Study, Hospital of University of Electronic Scie...